Movies | February 09, 2010 | 41 comments

Naked Body Scanner Image of Film Star 'Printed, Circulated by Airport Staff'

source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/exposed-naked-body-scanner-images-of-film-star-printed-circulate...

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Authorities’ claim that virtual strip search pictures immediately destroyed proven fraudulent – use of devices needs to be halted now.

Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.

“It is very important to stress that the images which are captured by body scanners are immediately deleted after the passenger has gone through the body scanner,” Adonis told the London Evening Standard.

Adonis was forced to address privacy concerns following reports that the images produced by the scanners broke child pornography laws in the UK. When the scanners were first introduced, it was also speculated that images of famous people would be ripe for abuse as the pictures produced by the devices make genitals “eerily visible” according to journalists who have investigated trials of the technology.

However, the Transport Secretary’s assurances were demolished after it was revealed on the BBC’s Jonathan Ross show Friday that Indian actor Shahrukh Khan had passed through a body scan and later had the image of his naked body printed out and circulated by Heathrow security staff.

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41 comments // Naked Body Scanner Image of Film Star 'Printed, Circulated by Airport Staff'

  • jjammedjr
    • 0
      jjammedjr [removed]  

    • Anybody else find it ironic that it was the image of Adonis that the staff (women i would bet) printed and ogled (worshiped?)

      go google Adonis.....................

      or maybe i am jus higghhh

    • 2 years ago
  • Philip_Robibero
  • richjm
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      richjm  

    • The man was very, very, very (and so on) likely to be joking. He said this on a notoriously irreverent comedy show and his story doesn't fit with known facts about the systems.

      A BAA Airports spokeswoman said the claims were “completely factually incorrect” because the body-scanning equipment had no capability to print images. She stressed that images captured by the equipment could not be stored or distributed in any form.

      She also added that the scanners had only been brought into use four days before the chat show was recorded and was only used for departing passengers, making it unlikely – although not entirely impossible – that the Bollywood actor would have used them in any case.

    • 2 years ago
  • FishaHouse777
  • eden49
  • Mark701
    • +2
      Mark701  

    • I predicted this was going to happen the minute I heard about these body scanners. Adults often act like children and the result was 100% predictable. Richjm, the fact that there are no printers on the scanners(if that's true) is irrelevant. Those machines must have memory and storage capacity in order to allow them to prosecute cases in court. It would be no big deal to transmit a photo via email or flashdrive and print it out.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • danitassin
  • richjm
    • 0
      richjm  

    • Given the subject of the film Khan is over here to promote and the lack of a printer on these scanners, I'm inclined to think this is a hoax. It wouldn't be impossible to take a camera phone snap of the screen and print that off, mind.

      Regardless, I think we should wait for more info to emerge before getting worked up over what could just be film PR.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
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      ryan8566  

    • an isolated incident is not a good reason to scrap the whole program....he knows he has recourse. as i commented before on another post, i would gladly submit to a 'body scan', and look to other passengers to do the same, to increase chances of staying alive. what is the problem?

    • 2 years ago
  • alexandrek
  • Incredulous
    • +4
      Incredulous  
    • ryan8566:

      you seem to forget that it was an isolated incident that brought about the advent of naked body scanning in the first place, and not to mention a 'failed' isolated incident. I still maintain that the incident that caused us to implement this technology was a staged event, with the end goal of making some corporation a tidy profit. It is yet another phase of the 'we need to invade Iraq" mentality.

    • 2 years ago
  • Kari_Heaberlin
  • ryan8566
  • ryan8566
  • devinb
  • ryan8566
  • Cat_Ladies_Man
  • rickm8
    • +6
      rickm8  

    • If they circulated my naked scanner picture they would just be embarrassed/the ladies would be impressed. Maybe this guy is self conscious.

      But really, it's clear what direction our country is heading in.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • mr_tibbles
  • fullcd
    • -1
      fullcd  

    • I thought they said the images are deleted immediately, of course they'd say anything to get the public's support. Obama has given 780 million for 1000 brandy dandy new naked body scanners to be put in at airports all over the US. Save us government!!!!!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • Bushido
    • +7
      Bushido  

    • Where are all the geniuses who have been arguing with me since the underwear bomber that this technology will only make us safer and can't possibly be used for nefarious reasons?

      Perhaps the reaction to this example is just everyone "being prude" as claimed earlier last month?

      Keep handing over your rights people, there will always be someone willing to take them off your hands.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • MrWong
    • +6
      MrWong  
    • Image
    • ryan8566:

      nefarious: flagrantly wicked or impious. Should I look up impious for you as well?

      You seem to be missing the point. Every new security measure they impose is another invasion of privacy in the name of 'national security'. 'National security' is code for abolishment of civil rights. They do it in baby steps so as not to create a huge backlash, but little by little they're taking it all away and people are buying it because they think our government actually has our best interests at heart. Same as with the phone tapping of everyone in the U.S. years ago by George W., using the 'war on terror' as an excuse and that our safety is the bottom line. The bottom line is the almighty dollar. Where there's a dollar to be made, there's a motive to be questioned. Given that at this point our country is pretty much run by the major corporations of the U.S., you can bet that our safety isn't the main concern, but rather how to make some money from all of this.

      Back to airport security, it doesn't matter what security measures are imposed, someone will find a way around it. That's how it's always been and that's how it will always be, ESPECIALLY when you have people willing to die for some religious cause that they don't even fully understand. I don't support the use of these body scanners, a.k.a. strip searches. At this point we should be more worried about the pilot flying the plane than the guy trying to blow it up.
      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/?utm_campaign=homepage&u...

    • 2 years ago
  • donkeyfly69
    • 0
      donkeyfly69  
    • ryan8566:

      "are you seriouslly saying that you trade the scan for the significant increase in a safe flight? that will probaby not blow up in mid-flight?"

      hell yeah.

      let me carry some brass knuckles on board and i'll even let you transport former guantanamo residents

    • 2 years ago
  • dershope
    • +1
      dershope  

    • Now its confirmed that these things do what we were told they didn't do. Now what? That's the million dollar question. Excuse me, trillion dollar question. Million dollars won't buy you shit!

    • 2 years ago
  • eternal_springs
  • HsIV
  • Mariased
    • +4
      Mariased  
    • HsIV:

      Search for "airport body scan" on google images. If any of those pictures are arousing to you, I suggest you seek help. They're not pornographic, just an invasion of privacy.

    • 2 years ago
  • perlpunk
    • +2
      perlpunk  

    • Its unfortunate that people will put up with this sh*t long enough, this will become all too common place until we have some other government agency that oversees these records are removed, yet still ultimately fail.

    • 2 years ago
  • CalgarC
  • ryan8566
  • CalgarC
  • ryan8566
  • CalgarC
  • masterzip
    • -4
      masterzip  

    • naked body scan pictures all 100% for your saftey,..please forward all naked body scan pictures of Pam Anderson when she travels...

    • 2 years ago
  • tommytripper
  • lordsbassman
  • voyd21
  • heavydfunk
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